Obama Is ‘First Hispanic President,’ Geraldo Rivera Says

cnsnews.com ^ | March 20, 2009 | Penny Starr

[Free ThinkerNY]

(CNSNews.com) – Journalist and TV personality Geraldo Rivera summed up the optimism of pro-immigrant activists and mostly Democrat politicians at the 13th annual U.S.-Mexico Congressional Border Issues Conference by saying he is confident President Barack Obama will keep his campaign promise to sign “comprehensive immigration reform” into law.

“Barack Obama is the first Hispanic president the same way Bill Clinton was the first black” president, Rivera said at the conference, which took place Thursday at the U.S. Capitol.

Rivera also said the Hispanic community should “give the president some slack” in keeping that promise on immigration reform, given the pressing problems with the economy and other priorities, including health care.

At the conference’s morning panel, experts and activists called on the Obama administration to champion “rational” immigration reform that would give the estimated 12 to 14 million people who are in the country illegally a path to citizenship.

Panelist Kathleen Walker, past national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said she wanted to avoid the “A-word,” or amnesty, but said there is a direct link between the future health of the economy and the millions of illegal aliens who are working in the United States.

[SaxxonWoods]

Obama is the first Hispanic President. What, he was born in Mexico or Spain?

And Geraldo is another in a long line of idiot journalists.

[blu]

Oh, CARP! I thought Jerry found Barrack’s actual birth certificate and it said he was born in MEXICO!

[CharacterCounts]

Geraldo Rivera also said he was a Republican on Fox this morning. If he represents your average Republican, then the party is in deeper trouble than I thought, and I thought it was in pretty deep trouble.

[Drango]

Given the RED of his policies, I’d say he’s the first American Indian president.

[willgolfforfood]

One amazingly sharp dude, that Geraldo. Nothing gets by that guy.

[raybbr]

Those democrats. They just have to be the first at everything.

[WellyP]

Geraldo may be more right than he knows. Obama’s mother was in Cuba from Oct. 1960 to the end of Dec. 1960. Do the math!

[Califreak]

He knows exactly what he’s doing.

Those who are drunk on koolaid don’t, or I suppose they just don’t care.

[Professor_Leonide]

There are times when I actually like Geraldo Rivera but, I must conclude, the guy is just a hater of America and a race baiter. Since he says any talk of enforcing the borders or respecting U.S. laws is anti-Latino hate, then I can only conclude that like a lot of American journalests, Geraldo hates America as it once was and longs for America the debased.

[mentor2k]

Empty again, Geraldo.

[kabar]

He may be right since Hispanic is a phony category set up by the Dems in the 1970's so they could create another victim class and imbue them with special rights and privileges, including whites. More than 50% of Hispanics consider themselves as white per the Bureau of the Census, which has set up the phony category of non-Hispanic whites.

Here is the definition of Hispanic from the government of Virginia website on minority business set asides:

3. "Hispanic American" means a person having origins in any of the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, South or Central America, or the Caribbean Islands or other Spanish or Portuguese cultures and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.

The same holds true for that nebulous category called Asians.

"2. "Asian American" means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to Japan, China, Vietnam, Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Northern Mariana, the Philippines, a U.S. territory of the Pacific, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.

The Dems are using these definitions to create a herd instinct so that voters go with the group rather than their individual interests when voting. And we are led to believe that "minorities" will become half the population by 2042. Of course, 87% of the 1.2 million legal immigrants who enter this country annually are minorities by that definition.

[devistate one four]

He’s half white and all wrong!

[freekitty]

ROTFLOL They get more stupid everyday.

[Califreak]

http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Who cares what ‘Jerry Rivers’ thinks? I can’t believe ANYONE still employs that guy.

[Rightly Biased]

Jerry Rivers you never know what he’s gonna say do ya?

[JoanneSD]

I can agree some what with rivera... obama is illegal alien...like many hispanics..

[RexBeach]

Well, I gotta hand it to him, Geraldo is a real panderer.

[HiJinx]

Ay Carrumba...Ping!

[Natural Law]

Geraldo is a USDA Choice horses ass. He is living proof that horses asses out number horses.